Local legend Jack Hammett is probably best known for having been on the Costa Mesa City Council for two terms. During that eight-year period (starting in 1970), Hammett served for a time as the city's mayor. Hammett is also co-founder and — for 26...

A Huntington Beach High School student was arrested Friday on a suspicion of leaving a note threatening to bomb the school, police and prosecutors said Tuesday.
Christopher Michael Casey, an 18-year-old resident of Huntington Beach, is charged with one...

The bomb squad was called in to the Huntington Beach Police Department on Dec. 1 when explosive acid was found in its forensic crime lab.
The Orange County Sheriff's Department's bomb squad was called about 2 p.m. to the Police Department, 2000 Main St.,...